Amazon Echo is finally making its way to the UK

Amazon Echo is finally coming to the UK, after a wait of approximately one billion years. The device, which uses Amazon's voice assistant Alexa, is now on pre-order and will arrive UK-side on 28 September.

The Echo is a small Bluetooth speaker that connects to your home Wi-Fi and essentially works as a small robot butler, keeping an ear out at all times.

You can ask it questions, which it will answer by drawing info from the web, or tell it to control your smart home appliances. For example, you could ask it for the weather forecast, the football score, tell it to play music, or get it to dim the lights.

Amazon also confirmed it will be bringing the Echo Dot to the UK on 20 October, costing ¬£49.99. The Dot is a smaller version of the Echo that packs the same smarts but relies on your own speakers for sound.